October 11 Sunday – In London Sam wrote to Franklin G. Whitmore responding to a recent letter. Whitmore hadn’t enclosed a newspaper notice of Susy that he said was enclosed. Livy wanted to leave the matter of the rugs in the Farmington Ave. house in Ellen O’Neil’s charge to take care of. He also agreed that they wanted the furnace & ceilings to be safe, but wanted to “let the expense stop there.”

We mustn’t let any harm come to those Barneys — Providence will attend to that for them without any of our assistance [MTP].

Clara Clemens wrote of Sundays after the move to their rental house:

A Sunday in London looked like an array of misspent hours, particularly the quarter where we lived. Father would take Jean and me for a walk by the side of the river or into Regent’s Park. But everywhere we met an atmosphere of world-loneliness. Poor women seated aimlessly and alone on benches, even when the air was cold and damp. A stray cat, a stray leaf, a stray — Oh, everything looked adrift and unattended. It was on such days that Father created the habit of vituperating the human race [MFMT 180-1].